I Became the Progenitor Vampire-Chapter 276 - 278 Test the Sharpness of the Bloodline

Chapter 276 -278: Test the Sharpness of the Bloodline (4600-word Mini Chapter)

Chapter 276 -278: Test the Sharpness of the Bloodline (4600-word Mini Chapter)

On the evening of March 14th, in the office on the third floor of City Hall.

Moer and Valen were sitting on the sofa flipping through a stack of blueprints with somewhat hasty handwriting, while Lide sat across from them, with Harrison standing behind him, his back to the dim light.

Outside the window was the sparse sound of the wind blowing through the trees, and within the room was the crisp sound of papers being turned.

Lide looked at the blueprints he had transcribed himself, with a rather subtle expression on his face.

“Valen, are these bomb-carrying armors of any use?”

The Forging Master of about 1.5 blades in height, the Dwarf, shook his head then nodded, looking at Lide with an expression of wanting to speak but hesitating.

“City Lord…”

“It’s okay, just say it.”

After getting Lide’s approval, Valen somewhat relaxed and then spoke.

“These bomb-carrying armors are undoubtedly very precise and must have taken countless people a lot of effort to design.

But the problem is that they are too precise, not matching the rugged fighting style of the Magic Language Bats.

Moreover, these designers definitely have not encountered the Magic Language Bats. Their designs seem reasonable, but they are extremely contradictory to the flying habits and attack patterns of the Magic Language Bats.

Furthermore…” Valen paused, giving Lide a deep look.

“These sets of armor blueprints are definitely not the product of the Main Plane of Glory, right…?”

Oh?

Upon hearing this, Lide’s mouth curled into a smile that was not quite a smile.

As expected of a Dwarf Forging Master who had dealt with weapons all his life, this observation skill was truly out of the ordinary.

Looking down at the bomb-carrying armor blueprints on the table, Lide nodded his head.

“That’s right…”

These were the designs that he had just redrawn in Glory two days ago after going back to Earth to handle the Crimson Moon matter.

He had just ordered the production of the Air Force One before he remembered that he had also instructed the Data Analysis Department to design armor.

Immediately embarrassed.

He quickly found a gap to return to Earth and brought all these data back to Glory.

The development of the Crimson Moon was very healthy; his absence from Earth for a little over a month had not affected the Crimson Moon at all, and his trident was still being forged steadily, waiting for the launch of ‘Glory’.

As the Data Analysis Department did not receive any feedback after completing the initial design due to his long sleep, they had the time to design the second, and the third model…

After reviewing the design blueprints from the Data Analysis Department, Lide could only smile wryly.

Because he was asleep and unable to provide timely feedback, the armor designed on Earth could only be rigidly simulated with models, and they were not aware of the real condition of the Magic Language Bats, thus leading to a disconnect between the design and its usage.

Dwarves and goblins could conduct unlimited flight experiments with the Magic Language Bats, making immediate adjustments whenever there was an error. Air Force One was already the product of hundreds of modifications, naturally differing from the design on Earth that had not been modified even once.

Moreover, Air Force One was already basically meeting his current needs, so he didn’t pay much attention to Earth’s failure to meet his expectations.

“That’s right, this is indeed an alchemical creation from another Plane.

Valen, these are just their initial blueprint designs without any alterations; do you see anything worth learning from?”

Valen, assured of an affirmative answer, once again started to peruse with renewed interest. A forging master from a Different Plane, huh? Truly intriguing.

“City Lord, I can guarantee you must have given them the physical data of the Magic Language Bats, but they have not seen the real Magic Language Bats.”

The design of this set of armor is quite intricate, but there is a significant gap between it and the true status of the Magic Language Bats.

However, there are several points within that are definitely worth learning from.

For example, the design that allows an Air Knight to control and drop bombs is fantastic. Through exquisite alchemy skills, Alchemy Bombs are fixed to the mechanism, and the knight only needs to press a button on the back to immediately drop bombs.

Moreover, the idea of remote bomb deployment control is astonishing. Set up dual Magic Arrays, one on the belly of the Magic Language Bat and another on the ground, allowing for direct bomb deployment control from the ground after casting Magic. It’s incredible—how could Forging Masters from a Different Plane be so well-versed in magic??

The goblin Chief Moer, who had been silent up until now, could no longer hold back and hurriedly interrupted Valen to speak.

“Your Highness, the masterpiece you’ve brought out must have been created by a very great alchemist.

Look at this, the idea of developing air-targeting Alchemy Bombs—this is simply a stroke of genius!

And here, precision-guided Alchemy Bombs, being able to control the Alchemy Bombs to attack the desired target… By the Life Goddess above, this is absolutely thrilling!

And there’s more—armor-piercing Alchemy Bombs… incendiary Alchemy Bombs… ground-to-air Alchemy Bombs…”

Moer and Valen, two fellows of similar height, grew more and more excited as they observed, occasionally exclaiming uncontrollably at the exciting parts.

Lide breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, thinking, thank goodness Earth’s technology can still amaze the natives of this world, otherwise it would be a bit embarrassing.

However, since this world possesses Magic Power, and the system of Alchemy Bombs is entirely different from Earth’s chemical explosives, the deviation between the two is quite large.

Most of Earth’s ideas would be very difficult to realize in Glory; to achieve them, one must incorporate magic to reach the expected effects.

This can be seen as using Earth’s advanced approaches to design Magic World’s Alchemy Bombs. Although the integration of the two is a bit odd, it is certainly a direction for future development, guiding the research and improvement of Alchemy Bombs.

When Lide returned to Earth, he also provided the data for Air Force One to the Data Analysis Department, and Earth was refining Air Force One as well.

Due to the disconnect in information, sometimes Lide couldn’t arrange for Dawn City and Crimson Moon to contact each other in a timely fashion.

He couldn’t possibly do nothing and act solely as a go-between for the two factions, right?

The lack of smooth communication is currently the biggest issue between Dawn City and Crimson Moon.

Of course, the solution is simple.

As soon as the game servers open, he’ll have enough players at his disposal, and he could easily set up an intelligence point in Green City to facilitate direct contact between Dark Contract agents and players from Crimson Moon.

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After sending Moer and Valen down to discuss the stack of blueprints, Lide turned his head to look at Harrison behind him.

After his conversion into a Crimson Hunter, his demeanor had noticeably changed; the previously soft aura now carried a strong presence amidst its gentleness, subtly hinting at the authority befitting an Upper Race.

“Harrison, have Audis and his group’s actions been summarized yet?”

After laying out plans to open trade with the Dwarf Hills, the fully class-changed Bloodline members could be said to be frenziedly searching for Centaur Tribes to trade with within the hills these past days.

The process of their first trade was quite direct.

First, they would have the level 18 Withered Bone make a show of military might, then the Bloodline would appear with their intentions and directly bring out armor for trade.

With substantial military force as a guarantee plus the tempting offer of quality armor, this method worked especially well with the self-perceived strong Centaur Tribes.

Of course, things weren’t smooth sailing at the start, particularly with the first tribe—the Stone Hoof Tribe. When Audis stepped forward to negotiate, the centaurs, who had been taunted by Withered Bones for half a Sunshine Hour, went mad.

Audis nearly got killed by two level 15 Centaur Heavy Armor Warriors, and all the centaurs chased after him with what seemed like insanity. In the end, the Bloodline had no choice but to abandon trading with that tribe.

Afterward, Audis and his second generation of Bloodline learned to be shrewd. They only allowed the Withered Bone to intimidate briefly before swiftly initiating trade.

With this approach, the success rate greatly increased. Within a mere week, they had conducted the first transaction with six Centaur Tribes, and judging from these tribes’ reactions, the second transaction would likely be even simpler.

“Your Majesty, this time in the Dwarf Hills, Audis successfully completed six trades and established the basis for future ongoing transactions with these six Centaur Tribes.

In these six trades, we exchanged an average of one thousand sets of Rare Level armor each time, receiving five Wilderness Rhinoceros Skins for each set.

Tribes without Wilderness Rhinoceros Skins have already substituted other Demon Beast skins of equivalent value.

Overall, from the six trades, we manufactured and exchanged 6,000 sets of Rare Level armor for Demon Beast skins worth a total of 30,000 Wilderness Rhinoceros Skins.

One Wilderness Rhinoceros Skin can produce five Magic Scrolls, and the profit for five Magic Scrolls is 35 Gold Pucks.

Calculating the value of 30,000 Wilderness Rhinoceros Skins in terms of Gold Pucks, a rough estimate, this week we earned a total of… one million Gold Pucks!!”

The volume of his voice suddenly heightened, causing Lide’s lips to instantly curl into a thick smile.

Back on Earth, during the Medieval period of Europe, when the Europeans explored the New World, those ancient European merchants earned profits that were dozens or even hundreds of times greater in each trade. Lide felt that Dawn City’s trade with the Dwarf Hills had a similar flavor of Earth.

By exploiting the extreme industrial inequality, “equivalent value” negotiations were conducted with the primitive society of Centaurs.

The disparity between the two was not merely significant.

In the eyes of the Centaurs, the armor which they deemed extremely precious could be produced at a rate of one thousand sets a day by Dawn City, and even more if he wished.

This model was similar to how the primitive tribes of the New World traded gems and treasures for modern civilization’s alcohol and tobacco.

For the Centaurs, this price was surely a profit, as other humans trading with them would require at least 15 Wilderness Rhinoceros Skins for Rare Level armor.

This trade only required five!! This was already considered a huge gain, and the Centaurs were in a very jovial mood. In turn, Bloodline was tagged as loyal and reliable and worthy of trade.

With a “low-price” strategy, the Bloodline team led by Audis laid the foundation for the next cooperation with the Centaur Tribes they had traded with.

This was also the reason why Lide was reluctant to set prices too high. Trickling streams make a river; gradual development was the sure way. If they squeezed all the potential from the Centaur Tribes in one go, what would be left to do in the future?

“Transport the Demon Beast skins to the Crimson Mage Tower as quickly as possible. I need the Crimson Mage Tower to convert this batch of raw materials into Gold Pucks…”

Lacking money, something Lide, who never had to experience poverty, now felt a rare sense of urgency.

In recent days, the forging of Air Force One and the production of Alchemy Bombs have led the City Hall’s accounts to hold just over ten thousand Gold Pucks.

Ten thousand Gold Pucks, while not a small amount compared to when Lide first arrived at Glory and certainly enough to sustain Dawn City for three months.

But now, with a population of fifty thousand, Dawn City had become a mighty production machine. To maintain its current development, it needed to consume at least 60 to 80 thousand Gold Pucks a month.

This did not even include military expenses.

If you factor in the cost of making Alchemy Bombs, not even 150 thousand Gold Pucks would suffice…

Of course, most of these Gold Pucks entered Dawn City primarily through the purchase of goods from the outside world.

Despite such high expenses, he still had no immediate plans to levy taxes.

Currently, the savings level of Dawn City’s residents was at a very low standard.

Lide was biding his time, without a self-sustaining market, he was not considering large-scale taxation.

At present, the market in Dawn City suffered from deflation or, in other words, a shortage of money.

According to his estimates, after sustained large-scale construction, by the time Frost Month arrives this year, Dawn City’s market would be ready for regular taxation.

After all, he would be investing an astronomical amount of Gold Pucks over the next half a year to counter the deflation.

At that time, Dawn City would truly be able to move forward without needing his constant large-scale capital input to stimulate the market, as the self-sufficiency of its tens of thousands of residents would allow the city to thrive properly.

“In addition, once the breeding farm and school are established, we’ll need to set up a Magic Scroll production factory at Dawn Mage Tower.”

Harrison looked at Lide with some surprise upon hearing this. “Your Majesty, are we going back to Crimson Mage Tower?”

Lide shook his head. “No, we will have more and more frequent trades with the dwarf hills in the future, and owning our own Magic Factory will allow us to directly process some of the raw materials.

Crimson Mage Tower is limited by external factors, and I plan to maintain its current size for a short period of time.

In the future, we will take on a large part of the production, and eventually, Crimson Mage Tower will directly take Magic Scrolls from Dawn City for sale.”

Don’t put all your eggs in one basket.

Moreover, as Dawn Mage Tower grows stronger, it now has workers to produce Magic Scrolls.

While it is far from as mature as Crimson Mage Tower, once the factories of Dawn City are cultivated, I firmly believe that the potential of Dawn City’s factories will surpass that of Crimson Mage Tower.

After all, this is my territory. I can build it however I want, and nobody will have any objections.

On the contrary, Crimson Mage Tower is constrained by too many rules and regulations.

“My plan is for Crimson Mage Tower to engage in higher-end magic manufacturing in the future, such as Three Circle Magic Scrolls, and even Four Circle Magic Scrolls…”

“Harrison, go and inform Stanley later to start paying attention to the outside world for any technology related to the manufacture of Three Circle and Four Circle Magic Scrolls. If there are any, we must acquire them at all costs.”

Lide had a clear train of thought.

In the outside world, when Crimson Mage Tower develops to a certain size, it will inevitably face restrictions. If it becomes too large, Spark, the level 19 Great Mage, might not be able to protect Crimson Mage Tower.

After all, interest is the most chilling demon in this world.

No one can avoid its temptation.

And the profits created by Crimson Mage Tower have already made countless people envious.

“Yes, Your Majesty.”

After arranging these two matters, Lide stood up from the sofa and walked to the window, leaning on the wooden railing with both hands, his deep and dark eyes looking at the colorful clouds lit by twilight, his expression gradually turning cold.

“Inform Oli to assemble all troops of Dawn Wings.

Inform Stanley that all Bloodline conversions, except for the sacred land and other important forces remaining behind—will all gather.

We are going to participate in a war.”

To take over the Fine Iron Ore Vein was an agreement with the Iron Hoof Tribe, and of course, it was also his desire to control the Fine Iron Ore Vein.

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Such a high-quality resource point would be a waste if Dawn City did not take possession of it.

As for the Iron Hoof Tribe, this poor Centaur Tribe will mine for him just like the Beastman of Dwarf Valley after he occupies this mine.

The only difference is that he has to provide complete logistics support for the Beastman of Dwarf Valley, while the Iron Hoof Tribe only needs to provide a small number of weapons and Equipment in exchange.

He did not know whether the Iron Hoof Tribe would profit, but he knew he definitely would not lose.

Of course, there was another most important purpose for this war.

To test the real combat strength of the Bloodline after their transformation.

Blood Mage, Bloodsucking Sword Guard, Blood-colored Blade, Crimson Hunter, along with the air force of Dawn Wings—fully loaded Magic Language Bats carrying 20 Alchemy Bombs.

This will be a completely new war, entirely different from any before for the Bloodline.

He wanted to test the Bloodline’s tusks.